Quotes Flashcards
“A Sister, dipped in blood”
Chapter 2
Sinister imagery
Religious
“I hunger to commit the act of touch”
Chapter 2
Touch deprived
Forbidden
“He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister”
Chapter 2
Division between men and women
Lack of community and support between women
Isolation makes one weaker
“trained pig’s on its hind legs”
Chapter 4
Animal Farm reference
Hierarchy
Dystopian Society
“a small defiance of rule”
Chapter 4
Seeking excitement
Restrictive society
Power of female bodies
“We are a society dying…of too much choice”
Chapter 5
Choice - indecision - unpredictable
“memento mori”
Chapter 6
“Remember you have to die”
Lack of choice
Sinister
Death
“The night is mine”
Chapter 7
Personal
Identity
Only possession
“Help me”
Chapter 8
May Day from French word meaning help me
Aid
“men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits”
Chapter 9
Ironic
Slept around casually but it isn’t a casual act
“The stains on the mattress. Like dried flower petals. Not recent. Old love”
Chapter 9
Old sex
Lost innocence
No longer fertile
“But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men”
Chapter 13
Romanticism
Objectification
Sexualising women
“Her fault, her fault, her fault”
Chapter 13
Guilt tripping
Women blamed for men’s actions
“I keep knowledge of this name like something hidden, some treasure I’ll come back to dig up, one day”
Chapter 14
Identity
Important
“Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth”, “Give me children, or else I die. Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? Behold my maid Bilhah. She shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her”
Chapter 15
Bible quotes
Religious government
